AAUW Fundraiser: Style Show, Luncheon, and Silent Auction

 Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:00 noon; John Stewart Student Retreat Center
Proceeds benefit Montevallo’s Reading Is Fundamental Program,
AAUW’s UM Book Scholarship, and AAUW’s  Educational Programs
(Guests may come between 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon to begin bidding on Silent Auction Items)

Plans are underway for our annual AAUW Style Show, Luncheon, and Silent Auction, a fund-raising project sponsored by the Montevallo Branch of AAUW to benefit  AAUW’s Educational Programs and Reading Is Fundamental. We are very excited that this year some of our proceeds will again support a book scholarship for a freshman woman at the University of Montevallo.

Over the years our spring fundraiser has been well supported by the community.  This year your commitment means more than ever to provide educational opportunities for women and their families and  literacy opportunities for Montevallo’s children.  We need to enlist your support once more to help us further AAUW’s goals of educational opportunity for all.

For this year’s event, styles will be provided by Belk and lunches by Southern Sweets.  The Silent Auction will offer arts, crafts, and other specialty items.  The ticket price of $15.00 includes the luncheon, style show, silent auction, and a donation to further children’s literacy and educational opportunities for women. Tickets are now being distributed to AAUW members for purchase or sale. You should receive these in the mail shortly. 

Please make every effort to buy or sell your luncheon tickets. If possible, please turn in your ticket reservations and money by Monday, March 26  (sooner if possible!).  Checks should be made payable to the Montevallo Branch of AAUW. You may give your reservations and ticket money to Suzanne Hurst (Blue Phrog Gallery, 955 Main Street, Montevallo, 665 3766; bluephroggallery@att.net), or to Sandra Lott (665 2127; jlott285@charter.net)  It is very important that we have an accurate number for our caterer, so if you should decide to donate money instead of selling tickets, please let us know that, too, so lunches will not be ordered and not used.  For further information about tickets and reservations, you may  contact Mary Jo Buff (buffmj@montevallo.edu; 665 6289); or Sandra Lott; (jlott285@charter.net; 665 6501; 285 Cherokee St. Montevallo.)

To ensure the success of our event, we need quality arts and crafts items for the auction.   We hope each of our members will help by contacting a local artist for a donation or by donating a special personal arts or crafts item to the auction. We welcome needlework, woodcrafts, stained glass, painting, handmade baskets, gourd art, ceramics, antique, vintage, or holiday items, gardening, specialty foods, photography, note cards, or other arts and craft items. If at all possible, deliver items for the auction to Suzanne Hurst at Blue Phrog Gallery or to Karen Rutherford or Tonja Battle at Hill House on the UM campus.  If it is more convenient, Sandra Lott will be also be glad to pick up or receive your items. For more information about the auction,  please contact Sandra Lott (665-2127; jlott285@charter.net) or Mary Jo Buff (665 6289; buffmj@montevallo.edu).

As always, your auction donations and purchases and your ticket sales and purchases will be essential to the success of our fundraiser. Thanks so much for your continued help and support!